![]() You have both established voice-actors like Sugita Tomokazu and more unknown ones like the voice of the main character, Omigawa Chiaki. The ED is also great by the way, maid rock! Oh, and while we're in the sound section of the review. I wouldn't call it amazing or anything, but it's pretty good and it serves it purpose well. ![]() Which brings me to the soundtrack of the series. But to be fair, when combining the sweet sounds of ROUND TABLE with the OP animation of Shaft, you wouldn't expect anything less. Soremachi is no exception, I don't think I'm going too far by saying it's the best OP of 2010. When you think Shaft, you think great OP animations (well, at least I do). Both wide-angle and extreme frog-perspective shots see frequent use (or abuse, depending on your opinion), which brings a nice sense of Shaft-flair to the scenes. The black and white "I'm in despair!"-animation from the Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei-series is still there though, if anybody is wondering. The typical eye close-ups and large amounts of on-screen text which the studio is rather infamous for were also mostly absent. I guess their budget might be bigger this time due to Bakemonogatari's success, but I digress. This is REALLY uncommon for this studio's shows, usually featuring big dips in animation quality throughout. It was very fluid and quite detailed, and not only during the first episode, it kept the quality level relatively uniform during the whole series. One thing that was unexpected was the quality of the animation. It's all very simple, but due to Shaft's style of blowing simple things up to bizarre proportions, it works. The story is slice-of-life style, with two chapters from the manga adapted into each episode, keeping things fairly fast-paced and never boring in any sense of the word. ![]() Throw in a large cast of interesting characters, a bunch of puns, some lateral thinking puzzles, a couple of love triangles/squares and you've got yourself a winner. After school she works in Seaside, the maid cafe owned by her grandmother, together with her classmate Tatsuno. Enter Hotori, a quirky high school student whose dreams is to become a teenage Sherlock Holmes. Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru is fairly straightforward. Some times they'll create excellent animation and sharply delivered dialogue, other times they'll churn out something that looks more like a slideshow and the boring, endless monologues which are associated with them. For the unitiated: If Japan's anime industry was a party, and the studios were the invited, Shaft would be the high guy smoking joints on your favourite couch while eating all your snacks. I was familiar with the source material, but since the production was in the hands of Shaft, yeah. To be honest, I didn't know what to expect from this adaption. ![]()
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